An Evening of Music with J.R. Rhodes featuring Lori Goldston

You’re invited to join J.R. Rhodes and dear friends: Lori Goldston (cello), Mell Dettmer (sound) and Dave Leitz (light and projection design) in sharing live music from 1996 to today including songs from the new album Ma’am.

The evening will include a live performance with Lori and J.R. plus the first public listening of Ma’am.

There will be pre-release special edition vinyl copies of the new album made available for the first time at this show.

Saturday March 28
Doors at 6:00pm, program begins at 7:00pm
At The Grocery Studios, 3001 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144
With live performance by
J.R. Rhodes (Voice, Guitar, Songwriting)
Lori Goldston (Cello)

Tickets: $20 suggested donation
Limited capacity -- reserve your seat!
Pay what is perfect as you’re able, whatever you can from where you are.
Sharing your spirit and sharing from your heart is the entry fee. And if you’re able to contribute more, you are welcome to. All are welcome.
All ticket revenue goes to the performers.

All the things in the spirit of connection and Love.

photos by Michelle Smith-Lewis

About JR Rhodes
https://www.jrrhodesco.com

Singer-songwriter J.R. Rhodes believes in the transformative power of music. From her first open-mic performances at the O.K. Hotel, Seattle, to her latest album Ma’am, these beliefs in the transformative power of music are distilled into songs of quiet intensity that traverse spirituals, folk, blues, jazz, and rock.

Rhodes earned her B.A. in music composition from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Jazz artists Bill Lowe and Anthony Braxton were teachers at Wesleyan who encouraged her to explore and push beyond any self-imposed boundaries. These lessons have allowed her to continually grow and evolve her music.

Her full-length albums include Ma’am (2026), I Am (2017), Elixir (2011), AfriQueen Stare (2003), and Songs of Angels (1999). Additional works include Lullabies (2013), a performance of traditional spirituals, with On the Boards, Seattle; as well as 2 Old Chicks (2005), a 50-piece orchestral film score, created in collaboration with Doris Bartha and Steve Brush. In 2020, J.R. recorded a new single, ‘Spilt Milk’ for the compilation album Songs Collected released by Drums & Wires Recordings. In 2020, she sang harmony vocals on the folk singer-songwriter Jim Page’s album Now is the Time. In 2021, she recorded her rendition of the traditional folk song ‘Black is the Colour’ with cellist Lori Goldston.

JR’s 7th studio album entitled Ma’am is set for a 2026 release. Ma’am is a collection of songs inspired by the lives, works and wisdoms of African-American artists Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Cotten, and more. And is dedicated to the memory, life and spirit of her Mother, Barbara J. Pruitt Rhodes.

Ma’am was made possible by grants and fellowships: Continuum Culture & Arts, The Center at Orchard Hill, The Fellowship, 4Culture, The Office of Arts & Culture, Artist Trust and by the generous donations and sustained patronage from listeners.

JR Rhodes Company (JRRC) is the home of J.R. Rhodes music. Founded in 1996 to focus on creating live and recorded music solo and in collaboration.

About Lori Goldston
https://www.lorigoldston.com

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.

Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.

Her work has been commissioned by and/or performed at the Kennedy Center, Sydney Festival, Cineteca Nacional de México, Tectonics Festival, Frye Art Museum, Time Based Art Festival (TBA), WNYC, The New Foundation, Paris Fashion Week, Northwest Film Forum, On the Boards, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Crossing Border Festival, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Joe’s Pub, the Stone, University of Chicago, and venues large and small throughout North America, Mexico, Australia, and Europe.

Visiting The Grocery Studios

The Grocery Studios is a private home and art studio in a residential neighborhood of North Beacon Hill, Seattle. Street parking is limited. Please consider a rideshare or a 7 minute walk from the bus or Beacon Hill light rail station. We want to be respectful of our residential neighborhood!

The Grocery Studios is at 3001 21st Ave S, Seattle WA 98144

The studio has an accessible entrance and restroom. Please contact us if you need other accommodation.

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